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Radiation therapy is the use of high energy radiation to damage the genetic material of cancer cells and destroy their ability to divide and grow. Radiation therapy most often refers to external beam radiation therapy - during this type of therapy, the high-energy beams come from a machine outside of your body that aims the beams at a precise point on the body. There is a separate type of therapy, brachytherapy, where radiation is placed inside your body.
While radiation therapy damages both healthy and cancerous cells, the goal is to kill the least amount of normal, healthy cells. Normal cells can often repair the amount of damage caused by radiation.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of this therapy, there are no available images to show as example.